Why do I believe in non-duality?
Originally written in my journal November 18, 2021 At one of the zoom meetings, something got me questioning, “Why do I really believe...
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Bill Smith
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
Non-dual zoom groups
Although from the point of view of Awareness, there is no progression to Awareness, no “development” or “stages,” many of us who haven’t...
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Bill Smith
- Sep 6, 2022
- 1 min
At the threshold
I have this threshold experience where I get right up to the door of Awareness but the doorman says, “Sorry, bud, you can’t get in.” “But...
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Bill Smith
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min
Very special Nisargadatta quote
I’ve been reading this quote from Nisargadatta (I Am That) for several days. I find it rich with meaning. I’d like to share the quote and...
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Bill Smith
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min
There is only one love, one beauty
In the zoom meeting today, I expressed my concern that I seemed too often be diminished or raised up by “others.” I would have a period...
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Bill Smith
- Jul 20, 2022
- 4 min
On balance in the universe
Note: All quotes are from Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Tao te ching. In a recent non-dual zoom meeting, someone raised the...
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Bill Smith
- Jul 19, 2022
- 2 min
An indescribable "experience"
I had an experience when I awoke late last night. I put quotation marks around “experience” because I know Holger will jump on that term,...
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Bill Smith
- Jul 3, 2022
- 2 min
Experience moves through the self
I’ve been listening to the meditations from the Garrison Retreat, and in one, Rupert says that “the Self doesn’t move through experience,...
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Bill Smith
- Jun 28, 2022
- 4 min
What's age got to do with it?
At a recent nondual meeting, there was some discussion about whether it helped to have age and experience to be “realized,” to be able to...
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Bill Smith
- Jun 22, 2022
- 2 min
My perspective when I go to the various Zoom meetings
Periodically, I attend the Zoom meetings of Friends of Rupert Spira and the Spiritual Coffee Shop (hosted by Holger Hubbs). I want to...
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Bill Smith
- Jun 18, 2022
- 3 min
Seeing and expressing through the veil
I have learned something valuable from the Spiritual Coffee Shop (https://www.gardenoffriends.com/ ) group. For awhile, I have expressed...
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Bill Smith
- Jun 2, 2022
- 2 min
Finding the self
Some days, when I want to find my True Self, it’s like peeling an onion. I go through, layer by layer, looking for access, but I don’t...
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Bill Smith
- May 28, 2022
- 4 min
Why do I attend the non-dual Zoom meetings
In one of Holger Hubbs’s "Spiritual Concession" Zoom meetings, someone suggested that the only reason to be there was to solve our...
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Bill Smith
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
Getting to that space…
I’d like to describe an event that is occurring more frequently for me. It still only happens about once a week, and even though I go...
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Bill Smith
- May 25, 2022
- 4 min
Contrast between spiritual teachers
I have been wondering about the “place” where various spiritual teachers speak from. They all speak of the ultimate reality as “Oneness,”...
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Bill Smith
- May 25, 2022
- 4 min
Learning from failures ( winter 2021)
Note: This passage was written awhile back, months ago, in 2021. I’ve learned to no longer depend on “my story” for learning, or for my...
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